subutex
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A now discontinued brand name for buprenorphine, used to treat opiate addictions, in particular heroin.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "He was a Subutex addict. Subutex is supposedly used to wean people off heroin but, from what I have seen, there are more Subutex addicts in jail than there are heroin addicts (and there are a lot of heroin addicts)."
- "She'd seen a doctor who’d prescribed Subutex, a drug-replacement treatment designed to wean the user off heroin. It had made her throw up. I was so relieved and told her how proud I was of her for taking control."
Etymology
A marketing coinage, perhaps based on sublingual (“administered through placement under the tongue”).